The Castlegar Sun WEDNESDAY, A 19, 1995 Castlegar motorists will have to tolerate congested traffit on Columbia Avenue while phase four of downtown revitaliza- tion project is in progress. A.C. Tech employees have been ripping up the streets to bury services such as telephone and elec- trical lines and will result in a cleaner and more modern-looking downtown core. The $1.3 million project is expected to be com- pleted by mid-August. Work began at the north end and will progress south to the south side of Dr. Don Ellis' dental office on Columbia Avenue. SUN STAFF PHOTO ‘Karen Kerkhoft CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION “Discovery ” of Castlegar results in profitable year reflects the economic health of Castlegar and area. An increase of $5.1 million in assets brings CSCU’s capital to $53 million. Part of that growth is being attributed to a jump in deposits of $4.5 million and the increase of $3.1 million in loans. Included in the loan growth was an increase of $1.3 million in KAREN KERKHOFF _ Sun Staff The “discovery” of Castlegar as a retirement community and as a haven from the rat race of city liv- ing is being credited in part for a healthy economic year for the Castlegar Savings Credit Union. CSCU’s annual report for 1994 Entrepreneurial Training Program Have you suddenly found unemployed or are you tired of the seasonal employment cycles? Have you always thought that you would be happier self- employed? So you think you have what it takes to tum an employment setback into a venture? If so, Training Program may be for you. The Entrepreneurial Training Program, beginning May 3, 1995, in Nelson, is a 13 day program which covers the self employment option, identifying and ing business business plasining. legal. financing. and more. personal financial Candidates receiving Unemployment Insurance Benefits will be eligible for the program. Delivered by: K regional Sponsored by: Canada Employment Centre is limited should contact. Canada Employment Centre 514 Vernon Street Nelson, B.C Phone: 352-3155 Application deadline is April 25, 1995 hi Financial Planning Careers Come Build Your Future With Us! for exceptional financial rewards? Serious candidates will be licensed as Life and AccidenUSickness Agents in B.C. and will also be licensed to sell Mutual Funds. Candidates willing to study and obtain these licenses will be considered favorably A strong background in life insurance sales is highly desirable. The professional credentials of CA. CGA. CLU, CFP or CMA would be an asset Candidates must possess excepuonal and qualify for Esrors and interpersonal skulls, and must be fully bondable Omassion Insurance We are looking for individuals who are mature, dynamic and sales oriented to enhance the quality, service and products currently offered by our office. You must be self-motivated, detail oriented, accurate, be a team player. and have a pleasant telephone manner. This is not a 9 to $ position, but evening and any weekend work is usually conducted in the office. f able helping our chents meet their individual financial goals through a personal interview and needs analysis process. You must like people and like helping them improve therr lives You should enjoy sending out informational letters and take pleasure in following up by phone explaining the positive services that will help clients enjoy a more successful life Applicants must also be prepared to undergo a training program, both on-site and at franchise school. They will be to obtain further designations Join the newest Money Concepts office of over 90 across Canada. Applications should be returned ASAP as the opportunity will be afforded on May | to meet the president of Money Concepts (Canada) in Castlegar while a 2-1/2-day introductory seminar will be held May 5. 6 and 7 in Vancouver (The seminar. although not mandatory. 1s desirable : MaiV/deliver your resume WITH A ONE-PAGE HANDWRITTEN COVER#9G LETTER OUTLINING WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE POSITION to Burt Camptell. President MONEY CONCEPTS — CASTLEGAR City Centre Square. 292 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, BC VIN IG4 All applications will be treated in the strictest of confidence. Telephone enquires from qualified applicants are invited at 365-4980 from 7 30 am to 8:30 am Monday through Friday and on Monday. Wednesday and Thursday evenings from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Calls are also welcome on Saturday an Sunday momings from 7.30 am to 12 noon. Applications will close at 3 pm.on Monday, April 24. Intervi will start are received. “Individuals cannot long travel at a faster pace ~ than those with whom they associate” personal loans. CSCU was also successful in recovering $957,361 in 1994 as compared to $821,496 in 1993. As well, retained earning increased to $1.6 million while capital adequacy is reported to be in excess of the eight per cent requirement by the Financial Institutions Act Due to this positive finan- cial activity the board declared a 10 per cent dividend on equity shares The insurance division of CSCU is growing at a rate of 10 per cent annua)ly and is looking for agency acquisitions to help fortify its position in the market place Deadline approaches for Sun’s silent auction MARILYN STRONG Sun Staff Everyone is looking for a good deal. And for those who browse the pages of the West Kootenay Advertiser, some of the best deals in town are on The Castlegar’ Sun's first silent auction page. Tickets to Merritt Mountain Music Festival, a side of beef, a 14-inch color TV and more are all available to the highest bidder. “This is the first time we've tried something like this,” said Cathy Ross, Sun advertising counselor. “It's been done in larger com- munities and has been very suc- cessful,” she said. More than 17 advertisers from Castlegar and the Slocan Valley Commercial Printing & Bindery High Volume Copying Graphic Design & Typesetting 511 Front Street. Nelson (604) 354-1700 FAX (604) 354-1666 agreed to offer a special deal on a product. Pictures and descriptions of the products, as well as the weekly updated bids are pub- lished each week in the West Kootenay Advertiser. “Anyone, anywhere in the Kootenays can-bid on these items,” sajd Ross. “The number is a toll-free one, even though it doesn’t look like one. The voice mail instructions are very simple and there are great deals to be had,” she continued. The last day and time to bid on items is Wednesday, April 26 at 12 noon, so grab your weekend West Kootenay Advertiser and check out some of the great deals on some great items! In the Slocan Valley at Passmore. Watch for the sign. (OPER TUESDAY to FREBAY 10-7 4 saTeuba! August 1, 1995 Gustafson at 365-7227. DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION PHASE IV The final phase of Downtown Revitalization is underway and will continue until approximately During this period of construction there will be significant disruption to the motoring public, pedestrians and business. Your patience and cooperation is requested during construction. Any questions pertaining to the program should be directed to Cyril Sookachoff at 365-5979 or Jim Glance Phone 365-5579 with your business brief Thought for the week The race for quality has no finish line Launched The B.C, Liquor Di n Branch has hed a.new public information program designed to help educate customers about alco- hol and pregnancy. Developed in cooperation with the B.C. Medical Association's Committee.on Alcohol and Other Drugs and the B.C. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Society, the material will be part of the LDB’s regular rotation of in-store responsible-use messages. Free ride over As most Shaw Cable television viewers probably know, the pay tele- vision channels are once again scrambled after almost one week of free viewing. The channels were scrambled to allow technicians to work on the system. Hidden Holidays Wondering what to do with Aunt Mildred, Uncle Carl and their kids this summer? The Castlegar Sun will be presenting Hidden Holidays, a special booklet-size magazine, listing 101 activities, events and fun things to do in and around Castlegar. Watch for it on May 17! Sugar free Tasty Delites.in the City Centre Square in downtown Castlegar offers sugar-free ice cream with only one per cent fat. Flavors include caramel crunch swirl and chocolate dream. Building The City of Castlegar reports that 15 building permits were issued in the month of March. Two new single-family residential homes; nine id i i and four c ial iti vations were started. Commercial renovations include: the Kanigan Professional Build: Cc Plaza; a new roof at Castle Glass and Windshield and a new awning at the Ogiow building. Busy April The West Kootenay Trade Fair, sponsored by the Castlegar Selkirk Lion’s Club promises to be a busy event this year. It's their 19th annual trade fair and almost all the inside booths are Watch for the special Trade Fair supplement April 23 in the West Kootenay Advertiser. Circle April 28-30 on your calendar to be at the Castlegar Community Complex for Trade Fair 95! Cardboard drop-off If you have cardboard and are wondering what to do with it, Trail EcoCentre has a cardboard drop-off depet at Castlegar Mohawk on Columbia Avenue inside the rear of the building Licensed Nine new business licenses were issued by the City of Castlegar in March. Welcome these Castlegar businesses: Rebel Auto Electric Ltd. an automotive electrical rebuilding and sales service; Ice Metal Works a mobile welding contractor, Kootenay Powder Coatings, a powder coatings service, Conroy Exteriors (Kootenays) a siding con- tractor, D.H. Enterprises an equipment ‘contractor, and Auntie G’s a jewellery findings, beads etc retail store. Out-of-towners include: Dean DiCiano of Trail operating as a carpenter contractor, G & L Holdings Stucco and Drywall of Fruitvale is a stucco and drywall contractor and Capital Vacuums of Surrey Lid. are home agents. Now open The new Thrifty Gas on Highway 3 towards Grand Forks is now in full operation. The restaurant is open 7 am. - 11 p.m. featuring home cooked meals. Gas is now available with propane coming soon as well as a seasonal fruitstand. White goods White goods, such as appliances, refrigerators, stoves, etc., are no longer being accepted at the recycling depot at Castlegar Foods. They are to be taken to Absolute Appliance Repair, opposite Trowelex. Circle your calendar Remember Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 14. Kootenay Cruise The Third Annual Kootenay Cruise is already shaping up to be a huge event. More than 150 hot rods and cars have pre-registered for the event being held in mid-June. Tickets to the dance, featuring 50s and 60s music are already selling quickly. Phone Dwayne Mills at Avenues Hair Design for more information. Busier pace Kevin Chernoff of Trowelex reports that they have recently started all the ground clearing for the new Kal Tire site located in the Indus- trial Park. Take a powder Kootenay Powder Coatings reports that their decorative powder coat- ing is perfect for ornamental railings, bicycle frames and tire rims. As well, they recently completed a contract with B.C. Hydro for the railings around the Hugh Keenleyside dam. They recently powder- coated a gravel truck, the scoop on a bobcat and a sanding truck is now waiting treatment. Reunion All Trinity Western University alumni and former faculty/staff for the classes of 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1975, 1985 are invited to the reunion weekend April 21 and 22 at TWU Winner The People’s Choice award, as chosen by the visitors to the 16th Regional Juried Ant Exhibition was awarded to Angel for his mural- sized piece titled “The Wave” oe me P Jim Laktin FINANCIAL PLANNING Investors 1402 Columbia Ave.,Castiegar, B.C. Grou 365-RRSP Buildingfuuures ance 190. 2-2 ar ar ar Wednesday, April 19, 1995 The Castlegar Sun Page 3B Number of tourists beginning to pick up ‘The number of tourists is start- ing to pick up, and we're sending out lots of information. People are still ini d in be recognized in a special way Cars, boats, cosmetics, vitamins, etc. were dangled as enticing bait for and and out solicitors with BBB before donating. Call 682-2711 5. Foreign lotteries—no one moving here; we get at least two or three calls a day, in addition to fax and mail requests. One morning there was a fellow investigating opening a business in town, and after talking to him for a few minutes it turned out he was a clown by profession and he did a few impressions for me. New Members Ice Metalworks/Hairdesign Studio located at 501 - Sth Ave. (365-8115). Call John Graceffo for your welding needs and his wife Bonnie for your hair care needs. Castlegar and District Her- itage Society located in the Rail- way Station Museum, 400 - 13th Ave. (365-6440). Talk to Debbie McIntosh if you've some time to volunteer, they could use you. Kalawsky Pontiac Buick, GMC Ltd. located of course at 1700 Columbia Ave. (365-2115, fax 365-3949). Call them today for your vehicle needs. Metlomagiece Communications, 1684 Silver- wood Crescent (365-7770). Call Louie Melo for your video pro- duction, fundraising, public rela- tions and marketing needs. S.R.O. Bookkeeping and Computers, “The Systems Solu- tions Professionals”. Call Rick and Sharel Ogloff at 365-5889, fax 365-0048. Brian’s Repair Service (365- 7233). Call Brian for your small engine, automotive and mechani- cal repairs. Volare Programming Service (365-7577). Call Volare for your programming needs. Hope’s End Plantation Bed and Breakfast, your hosts are John and Carolynne Mason, 887 Waterloo Road (365-3206) Guests relax in the serene beauty of Ootischenia, on the bank of the Columbia Rive Je: v4 Recycling is Easy The chamber has taken up the challenge that The Castlegar Sun has given and we have started recycling. As Karen Kerkhoff has mentioned in her articles, it’s so easy! We just called the Trail EcoCentre and they brought the bin. EcoCentre comes and picks it up and there’s no more drag- ging bags out back on garbage day. Last week when I took the garbage out (I had forgotten the week before) there was not even one full green garbage bag when there used to be three! Some change, with less work, it’s great. Thanks, Castlegar Sun for getting us started! 10 Scams to Siam “The Better Business Bureau's annual round-up of the Top 10 Marketplace Scams lists, for the first time, four sch generated millions of dollars for the perpetrators, but no wonder- ful prizes. Repeatedly, the BBB asked, “If you've won a prize, why do you have to pay for it?” 2. Home renovation contrac- tors and handymen operating with cell phones and no fixed c d to i CHAMBER CHAT CASTLEGAR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE By Marcia Jackson BLO TE B.C. residents, especially seniors, that the price of work had gone sky-high and the quality of said work had sunk to a new low! BBB reminds consumers that if they have problems later, they need to know where to find the contractor, and urges them to check with BBB before buying. Call 682-2711 3. Prepayment scams, where thousands of consumers were invited by direct mail to pay in advance for goods or services to be provided later, caused BBB lines to hum. 4. Businesses professing chari- table intent, or using names close to those of ‘real’ charities, took a sizeable chunk of discretionary income from the marketplace via coin boxes, telephone solicitation and door-to-door canvass. The BBB invites consumers to check can a win on a foreign lottery, but hope appears to spring eternal, particularly amongst Americans, direct-mail keted ways of cutting global communi. cation costs, using global con tractors, ways to rapidly exploring new markets, improv- ing cold calls, research and sift ing through the information maze to avoid inf ion overload. from B.C. The workshops are presented 6.Envelope stuffing sch in the $39.95/$49.95 price range, these offers took cash from peo- ple who really couldn't afford to lose even that much, and provid- ed them with expensive plans to scam others. | 7. Nigerian faxes and letters bombarded local businesses P y, offering an opp to participate, in a big way, in ill- gotten gains by providing banking and other confidential information. 8. Unsolicited direct mail offers to purchase goods or par- ticipate in chain letter “opportuni- by Guy Hunting! P of HVL, a B.C.-based firm which operates in international industri- al training, systems integration and workflow re-engineering. As both a business person and a parent, he gives practical exam- ples to show where the new emerging information tools can make a significant difference in your life. These are the same tools which he himself uses every day in his own business. The business workshops are three hours in length. They start with a typical business ties” confused enough c to help this repeated offender make the list. 9. High-pressure marketing practises offering dubious prizes to sell timeshares on houseboats caught hundreds of consumers with their hype and ground them down through lengthy presentations. 10. Employment opportunities in exotic places encouraged job seekers to part with as much as $300 for out-of-date lists of potential employers, or other easy to access information, but no jobs. Suntest Parade Forms If your organization, business or club, is interested in being a participant in the parade, stop by the chamiber office and pick up a form or call us at 365-6313 Internet Seminar A workshop called “Doing Business on the Internet” will be held May 9 from 7 - 10 p.m. at the Fireside Motor Inn Banquet Room. The cost is $20 per person. This workshop includes new S CLEAN-SCENE CARPET CLEANERS * PROFESSIONAL CARPET AND UPHOLSTERY CLEANING With Complete Rinsing For Superior Results * FLOOD CLEANUP SPECIALISTS TRAINED PROFESSIONALS With Over 26 Years of Combined Experience THE CARPET CLEANERS MOST PEOPLE RELY ON OUR REPUTATION SPEAKS FOR US. FOR A FREE ESTIMATE CALL 365-6969 2327 - 6th Avenue to extract thousands of dollars, painting contacts for industrial, ‘ai & vaaiderdh as rather than merely handfuls, from ” wallets,” d Valerie MacLean, BBB general manager. Scams are listed in order of the number of calls gen- erated. The pricy ones are num- bers 1, 2, 7 and 9: 1. “You have won...claim your prize by sending money.” Once again, telemarketers appealed to the secret desire we all share, to 301 - 11 (Tull sie 00000000 Bid on items including: Mountain bike, Merritt Music Festival tickets, Automatic garage door opener, Water cooler, Lawnmower, Four poster bed AND MORE! 000000000000 00 0000000 Phone us for a quote. Pha: 365-7672 + § 0 Qs 626 2) 24 Castlegar, BC 365-7692 5. 9 Fax: Works! workflow re-engineering. DOING BUSINESS ON THE INTERNET WORKSHOP May 9, 1995 © 7-10 pm Fireside Banquet Room Cost: $20 per person Includes: Practical examples to show where the new emerging information tools can make a significant difference in your business. hops presented by: Guy Huntington, President of HVL, a BC based firm \which operates in international industrial training, systems integration and To reserve please call 365-6313 Sponsored by the Ministry of Small Business, Tourism & Culture and the CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT Chamber of Commerce ‘Seng he Cay of Castioper, Aes tone 1 OCR INFOCENTRES P pportunity and then show step-by-step method using information tools to gain a signif- icant advantage than by using tra- ditional business tools. Some of the seminars will include a live setup by the local Internet supplier. This allows the workshop participants,to see live examples of what was shown, dis- cuss their local requirements and what costs are d This workshop is sponsored by the chamber and the Ministry of Small Business, Tourism and Culture, To reserve, contact the office at 365-6313. Court of Revision Water and Sewer Frontage Tax Assessments Notice is hereby given that the Court of Revision for Water and Sewage Frontage Tax Assessments will be held on Thursday, May 4, 1995 at 10:00 a.m. at City Hall, 460 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, B.C. The Court-of-Revision shall hear complaints and may review and correct the frontage tax assessment roll as to the names of the owners of parcels of land and the actual and taxable frontage of the parcels. Please note that a complaint shall not be-heard by the Court of Revision unless written notice of the complaint has been received by the undersigned by 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 2, 1995. COLLECTOR City of Castlegar 460 Columbia Avenue Castlegar, B.C. 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